Police have arrested a man after an extended follow through Melbourne’s southeastern suburbs in an allegedly stolen vehicle this morning.
A car was allegedly stolen from outside a property on Botanic Ridge in Cranbourne South overnight.
Officers spotted the vehicle in Dandenong about 1am.
With assistance from the Air Wing, police followed the vehicle through multiple suburbs to Brighton.
The car was dumped on South Road where the driver fled on foot.
An 18-year-old Cranbourne South man was arrested on Seymour Grove.
He is assisting police with their enquiries.
Operation Trinity, which runs from dusk until dawn across Melbourne is Victoria Police’s most well-resourced frontline policing operation at present.
Additional Dog Squad, Public Order Response and Air Wing police members are rostered each night, on top of existing patrols.
As a result of this intense focus, police have made over 1,400 arrests relating to burglaries and car thefts in the past twelve months.
A further 6,600 people have been processed for other offences detected by police working nightshift across the Trinity area of operations.
